--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-04-16  Ben Abbott  <bpabbott@mac.com>
+
+	* interpreter/plot.txi: Clarify that inheritance of default property
+	values only applies to the named object type.
+
 2011-04-12  Ben Abbott  <bpabbott@mac.com>
 
 	* interpreter/data.txi: Replace xref{Data Structures} with

--- a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
@@ -2390,7 +2390,11 @@
 may override the factory defaults.
 
 Although default values may be set for any object, they are set in
-parent objects and apply to child objects.  For example,
+parent objects and apply to child objects, of the specified object type.
+For example, seeting the default @code{color} property of @code{line}
+objects to "green", for the @code{root} object, will result in all
+@code{line} objects inheriting the @code{color} "green" as the default
+value.
 
 @example
 set (0, "defaultlinecolor", "green");

--- a/scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-04-17  Patrick Häcker  <magicmuscleman>
+
+	* strings/mat2str.m: Limit the number of digits to one less than
+	available for double.
+
 2011-04-15  Kai Habel  <kai.habel@gmx.de>
 
 	* general/interp1.m, polynomial/mkpp.m, polynomial/pchip.m,

--- a/scripts/strings/mat2str.m
+++ b/scripts/strings/mat2str.m
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 ## scalar then both real and imaginary parts of the matrix are printed
 ## to the same precision.  Otherwise @code{@var{n} (1)} defines the
 ## precision of the real part and @code{@var{n} (2)} defines the
-## precision of the imaginary part.  The default for @var{n} is 17.
+## precision of the imaginary part.  The default for @var{n} is 15.
 ##
 ## If the argument 'class' is given, then the class of @var{x} is
 ## included in the string in such a way that the eval will result in the
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@
 
   if (nargin < 2 || isempty (n))
     ## Default precision
-    n = 17;
+    n = 15;
   endif
 
   if (nargin < 3)
     if (ischar (n))
       cls = n;
-      n = 17;
+      n = 15;
     else
       cls = "";
     endif
@@ -137,3 +137,4 @@
 %!assert (mat2str (true), "true");
 %!assert (mat2str (false), "false");
 %!assert (mat2str (logical (eye (2))), "[true,false;false,true]");
+%!assert (mat2str (0.7), "0.7")